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Global Property News

Real Estate – In Portugal, a top ten destination for UK property investment, development and inquiries continue at a steady pace, but British partcipation has slowed since September. The Times reports that British investors and individual buyers are "waiting longer before they take the plunge". But this has not stopped Portugese development.

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Studies link lead to adult crime, brain damage
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Studies link lead to adult crime, brain damage

Health & Fitness – Exposure to lead in early childhood or in the womb can cause permanent brain damage that may even cause criminal behavior, researchers reported on Tuesday.

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Researchers Recover Thousand-Year-Old Viking DNA

Science – The Vikings buried on the Danish island of Funen may very well have sailed all the way to Constantinople or Baghdad or Moscow, looting and pillaging with lusty ferocity. And now we've got their DNA.

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Amber Waves of Ethanol
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Amber Waves of Ethanol

Money – The world food crisis is highlighting tragic stories of multitudes on the brink of starvation. Nonetheless, this crisis is likely to encourage a surplus of another kind: market fundamentalism. Advocates believe that if only markets are allowed to do their thing, economies can easily accommodate catastrophes or shortages of agricultural inputs.

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Japan plans to brew 'space beer'

Science – A Japanese brewery Tuesday said it was planning the first "space beer," using offspring of barley once stored at the International Space Station.

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Voted for on May 28, 2008 08:57am

Colombia offers bounty for FARC founder's body
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Colombia offers bounty for FARC founder's body

News – Colombian authorities are offering up to $2.7 million in bounty for the body of the founder and chief commander of the FARC rebels, who died after 40 years fighting the state, a top army official said on Tuesday.

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Six hours to hack the FBI (and other pen-testing adventures)
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Six hours to hack the FBI (and other pen-testing adventures)

Gadgets & Tech – White-hat hacker pros dish on top traumas and shocking snafus

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Voted for on May 28, 2008 08:57am

More Iraq war veterans run for Congress
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More Iraq war veterans run for Congress

Politics – Twice as many veterans of the Iraq war are running for Congress than in 2006, and this year Republican candidates outnumber Democrats. The outcome in November could well increase the number of combat veterans serving in Congress, a group that has been dwindling since 2000.

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Foreclosures in Military Towns Surge at Four Times U.S. Rate

Real Estate – In the midst of the worst surge in mortgage defaults in 7 decades, foreclosures in towns where soldiers live are increasing at a pace almost 4 times the national average. As military families signed up for the initial lower rates and easier terms of subprime mortgages, the number of people taking out VA loans fell to the lowest in 12 years.

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Taps player performs 75th holiday: WWII vet says he'll keep playing

Do No Evil – In May 1930, a boy named Hank Ranich was asked to play taps at Orange Square. That was 78 Memorial Days ago, and Ranich was 14 years old. Now, at 92, Ranich is still at it. Except for 3 years he spent in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, Ranich has played taps here at the close of every Memorial Day and Veteran's Day observation.

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As gas prices soar, thieves grow more brazen

Money – Bobby Lee Julien, who's driven a fuel tanker for 27 years, was near the end of his route. It was 3 a.m. when he pulled up at a stop sign off State Highway 225 in Houston. It took only a few seconds for the masked man to rip open the passenger door, jump in and point a gun at Julien, 52.

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Symantec Admits Fault in Windows XP SP3 Registry Corruption

Gadgets & Tech – You'll recall my earlier story on registry corruption for certain users upgrading to Windows XP SP3. The cases of registry corruption seemed to have a common thread: Symantec security products. Originally Symantec blamed Microsoft, but in a post on a Symantec support forum, a sr. manager indicated the fault may indeed lie with Symantec's products.

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McCain campaigns with Bush, seeing pluses, minuses

Do No Evil – John McCain's complex relationship with President Bush can be summed up with a simple saying: can't live with him, can't live without him.

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Musings Inspired By a Quagga

Science – Extinction is so much a part of today's cultural background -- this species endangered, that habitat lost, save the whale, save the rhino, save the rainforest -- that it's strange to think that as little as 200 years ago, most people didn't think extinction was possible.

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Bye-Bye, Set-Top Boxes?

Gadgets & Tech – An agreement announced Tuesday between Sony Electronics and the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA) may mean the end of that ubiquitous TV appendage: the cable set-top box.

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